Ed.D. Elementary Education Electives
COURSES ELECTIVES FAQS OVERVIEW KSU CATALOGECE 9100: Cognitive Processes and Educational Practice
This course examines the cultural-historical theory of cognition and human development
as a lens through which to analyze elementary education and schooling, with a particular
emphasis on ways in which pedagogical practices are mediated by social interaction
and cultural artifacts. Drawing from Vygotskian and sociocultural theories that view
the everyday practices of language and action as constructing knowledge, the course
examines the resources and funds of knowledge that students and communities possess
and how to harness them for classroom teaching.
ECE 9130: Critical Analysis of Instruction and Learning
This course is an advanced study of instruction and learning through the lens of classroom
discourse. Candidates will explore the talk that happens in their classrooms across
the three dimensions of the social context, interactional context, and individual
human agency. They will record and transcribe classroom instructional context, and individual
human agency. They will record and transcribe classroom instructional conversations and analyze
them based on such components as turn taking, contextualization cues, narrative resources, and framing
resources. Finally, candidates will reflect critically on their analyses of classroom
talk and use their reflections to enact change in their instruction.
